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Mark down August 8 in the diary. It's when the future of the 35th America's Cup and that of its principal architect, Sir Russell Coutts, could be altered.

Just briefly, all the pain and anguish she had endured came into sharp focus for Nikki Hamblin yesterday.

The 19-year-old Australian tourist who fell from a Queenstown hotel balcony has died overnight.

Five fire appliances are battling a large blaze at an animal feed store in an industrial park in west Ashburton this morning.

An army of international Hobbit fans will soon converge on Middle-earth for a private screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies with Sir Peter Jackson before the film's theatrical release in December.

National has sent a clear signal it will do a deal in the Ohariu and Epsom electorates by ranking its candidates in those electorates in high list places.

A woman remains in a serious condition after a block of flats caught fire in Auckland last night.

New Zealand's streak of judo success continued this morning (NZT), securing two bronze medals to bring to five the haul from Glasgow.

A disconsolate Ryan Sissons was left ruing the mistake that cost his country a chance for a triathlon medal.

The Crusaders juggernaut rolls on for another week, the Sharks dismantled piece by piece in Christchurch tonight by a team who look in clinical, and ominous, form.